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Bruno (name)

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Gender
  
Male

Meaning
  
"Shield" or "Armor"

Word/name
  
Old High German

Related names
  
"Bruna" (female)

Bruno is a male given name. It is derived from the Germanic word brun meaning Shield or Armor.

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It occurs very frequently in continental Europe, United States, Canada, Brazil and Oceania as a given name for men and boys.

Notable historical names

  • Bruno, Duke of Saxony (died 880)
  • Saint Bruno I, Archbishop of Cologne (died 965)
  • Saint Bruno of Querfurt (died 1009)
  • Bishop Bruno of Augsburg (died 1029)
  • Saint Bruno, Bishop of Würzburg (died 1045)
  • Bruno II (1024–1057)
  • Bruno the Saxon (11th century), historian
  • Bruno of Cologne (d. 1101), founder of the Carthusians
  • Saint Bruno, Bishop of Segni (died 1123)
  • Pope Gregory V, given name was Bruno of Carinthia
  • Pope Leo IX, given name was Bruno, Count of Dagsbourg
  • Several people named Giordano Bruno
  • Henri Reynders (Dom Bruno) (1903–1981), Catholic priest

    • Notable given names

  • Bruno Bauer, German philosopher
  • Bruno Bozzetto, Italian animator
  • Bruno Branciforte, Italian admiral
  • Bruno Brookes (born 1959), (born Trevor Neil Brookes), British DJ
  • Bruno Caboclo, Brazilian basketball player
  • Bruno Campos, Brazilian actor
  • Bruno Carabetta, French judoka
  • Bruno Carranza (1822–1891), former President of Costa Rica
  • Bruno Cheyrou, French footballer, older brother of Benoit Cheyrou
  • Bruno Corbucci, Italian film director
  • Bruno Cortês, Brazilian football (soccer) defender
  • Bruno de Finetti, Italian probabilist and statistician
  • Bruno Fernandes das Dores de Souza, Brazilian football (soccer) goalkeeper
  • Bruno Forte, Italian theologian and ecclesiastic
  • Bruno Gagliasso, Brazilian actor
  • Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
  • Bruno Gerussi, Canadian actor
  • Bruno Giacomelli, Formula 1 driver
  • Bruno Giacometti, Swiss architect
  • Bruno Giordano, Italian footballer and a coach
  • Bruno Gissoni, Brazilian actor
  • Bruno Grandi, Italian gymnast and president of the International Gymnastics Federation
  • Bruno Gutzeit (born 1966), French butterfly swimmer
  • Bruno Hauptmann (1899–1936), the man executed for the Lindbergh kidnapping/murder
  • Bruno Heller (born 1960), English screenwriter
  • Bruno Heppell (born 1972), Canadian football player
  • Bruno Hochmuth, American general
  • Bruno Hussar (1911–1996), Catholic priest
  • Bruno Junk (1929–1995), Estonian racewalker
  • Bruno Kirby (1949–2006), American actor
  • Bruno Kreisky (1911–1990), Austrian chancellor from 1970 to 1983
  • Bruno Langley, British actor
  • Bruno Latour, French sociologist and cultural theorist
  • Bruno Lauzi, Italian singer-songwriter
  • Bruno Leoni (1913–1967), Italian political philosopher (classical liberalism) and lawyer
  • Bruno Lucia, Australian stand-up comedian and performer
  • Bruno Magli, Italian shoe designer
  • Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter and music producer, famous for his international number-one single, "Just the Way You Are"
  • Bruno Mattei, Italian film director
  • Bruno Munari, Italian industrial designer
  • Bruno Nolasco (born 1986), Brazilian water polo player
  • Bruno Rezende (born 1986), Brazilian volleyball player
  • Bruno Prevedi, Italian opera singer
  • Bruno Renan Trombelli, Brazilian footballer playing for FC Shakhtar
  • Bruno Rossi, Italian-American experimental physicist
  • Bruno Ruffo, Italian motorcycle road racer
  • Bruno S., actor
  • Bruno Saby, French racer
  • Bruno St. Jacques, Canadian ice hockey player
  • Bruno Saltor Grau, Spanish footballer
  • Bruno Sammartino (born 1935), Italian-American wrestler
  • Bruno Sassi (born 1970), wrestler
  • Bruno Schulz, Polish writer
  • Bruno Senna, Brazilian racecar driver
  • Bruno Tabacci, Italian politician
  • Bruno Tonioli (born 1955), Italian dancer & choreographer
  • Bruno Urh, Slovenian architect initiator of Holotecture
  • Bruno Walter (1876–1962) Conductor and composer
  • Bruno Zumino, Italian theoretical physicist
  • Bruno, also known as Eko.Lsa, French rapper
  • Bruno Herrero Arias, Spanish footballer playing for Sevilla FC

    • Fictional given names

  • Bruno, a webcomic by Christopher Baldwin
  • Bruno!, a webcomic by Dan Smith (artist)
  • Bruno the Bandit, a webcomic by Ian McDonald
  • Bruno the Bear, a rival of Bugs Bunny in the Warner Brothers short Big Top Bunny
  • Bruno the Bear, a character on the TV series Edward and Friends
  • Bruno the Bigfoot, a character in Sam & Max Hit the Road computer game
  • Bruno the Kid, the lead character in the 1990s animated series
  • Bruno, a pseudonym used by actor Bruce Willis
  • Bruno, a character in the Sesame Street television show
  • Bruno, a character from Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno
  • Bruno, a character in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
  • Bruno, a robot from Mega Man Legends
  • Bruno, a dog in Disney's animated feature Cinderella
  • Bruno, 1930s animated cartoon pet dog belonging to Bosko
  • Bruno, a character in the Pokémon video game
  • Brüno Gehard, a character portrayed by Sacha Baron Cohen on television and in the 2009 film Brüno
  • Bruno Antony, the primary antagonist in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Strangers on a Train
  • Bruno Cortona, character in the 1948 film The Easy Life
  • Bruno Gianelli, a character in the TV series The West Wing
  • Bruno J. Global, a character in Macross
  • Bruno Mannheim, a DC Comics character
  • Bruno Martelli, a character on the TV series Fame
  • Bruno Martinez, a character in Grim Fandango
  • Bruno Ricci, character in the 1948 film Bicycle Thieves
  • Bruno Von Stickle, a character in Disney's Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
  • Bruno von Falk, a fictional character in the novel Suite Française and the 2015 film of the same name

    • Notable surnames

  • Alessio Bruno (born 1994) Italian footballer
  • Billi Bruno (born 1997), actress
  • Angelo Bruno (1911–1980), former boss of the Philadelphia crime family
  • Chris Bruno (born 1966), actor
  • Dylan Bruno, American actor
  • Federico Bruno (born 1993), Argentine distance runner
  • Francesco Bruno (born 1968), Italian sport shooter
  • Francesco Faà di Bruno, Italian mathematician and priest
  • Frank Bruno (born 1961), boxer,
  • Gioia Bruno, musician
  • Giordano Bruno (died 1600), Italian philosopher, priest, cosmologist, and occultist, executed for heresy
  • Giovanni Bruno, Italian footballer
  • James Bruno, American author
  • J. Jon Bruno, Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles
  • Joseph Bruno, New York politician
  • Nick Bruno, eighth president of the University of Louisiana at Monroe
  • Quentin Bruno, singer, dancer and actor
  • Salvatore Bruno, Italian football striker
  • Sébastien Bruno, French rugby union player
  • Tory Bruno, Aerospace executive and President and CEO of United Launch Alliance
    • Fictional surnames
  • Giorgio Bruno, a character in the video game Time Crisis 4
  • Jimmy Bruno, a character in Cold Case appearing in the episode "Forever Blue"

    • References

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